I think I speak for all when I saw that I’m really enjoying the Lakers current struggles and misery. But you know what terrifies me? Not necessarily that they’re going to figure things out and win 15 straight, because I think that ship has sailed. It’s that they’re going to win a couple games and grab everyone’s attention and fire up stories like, “Have the Lakers turned the corner?” And it obviously starts by beating a team like the Thunder on national TV.

If you think you’ve heard this story before, it’s because I said almost the exact same thing the first two games against LA. And both times, the Thunder put the Lakers back in their place. It’s very obvious the Thunder are superior to the Lakers in every way, but they do have four likely Hall of Famers and are still a threat to start playing dangerous basketball. And you know — you know — if they beat the Thunder today, it’s going to cause a minor freakout. I’d very much prefer that not happen.

the laker crowd sounds like they are at a funeralwhich is fitting i guess...

we kind of suck today

DO NOT GIVE THESE PEOPLE ANY LIFE

So Jamison is the scrub that steps up today huh

Should be runnin these folks out the gym, stop slowing it down to they're speed

I look at the scoreboard and worry...then I see D'Antoni and remember what a mismatch he is for the Lakers squad,

Yea, we're losing today.

Lakers came to play today...they are turning the season around

lakers are having to shoot LIGHTS OUT just to stay in this game lol.

Really enjoying this "Laker's Talk" broadcast. You'd think that they were the team with the best record in the NBA rather than 12th in the west.

everyone needs to chill, we got this

well that stretch was embarrassing

we just got beat on the fastbreak by two 40 year olds

So....we were up by 2 and Howard misses 4 FTS in a row and now we're down 3?

For all the talk about Durant vs James, Kobe is still the most clutch player in the 4th quarter.

I kinda hope we get the 2 seed so we don't have to see the Lakers in the first round...they are good when Kobe plays like this instead of 40 points on 35 shots

Lord they gonna play this game all week on @NBATV

well have to go. My wife says if I spend any more second staying mad at the Thunder game and venting on a this message board about it rather than focusing on real life (i.e., her and the kids), she's going to kill me. Sigh. Tough day

That play reminded me of those early 2000s playoff series against the Spurs. Kobe would cut through the Spurs defense and Duncan and Robinson would meet him at the rim and he'd just hand it off to Shaq for the easy dunk. There was one play where he wrapped the pass around Duncan or Robinson's back right to Shaq.

It starts there. Get Kobe to play within the system and the Lakers win easily. Great thread.

Haha I'm pretty sure that was nothing close to the system Mike envisioned coming here, Nash playing off the ball with Kobe posting up 90% of the game and making plays. That was as much as an "Iso Kobe" game as we have had this year

Haha I'm pretty sure that was nothing close to the system Mike envisioned coming here, Nash playing off the ball with Kobe posting up 90% of the game and making plays. That was as much as an "Iso Kobe" game as we have had this year

We played "Iso Kobe" more in the second half but he didn't take contested jumpers. Pretty effective considering "Iso Kobe" will attract defenders leaving someone open. They can't stop that cause if they don't come to Kobe, he will just.. score... Lmfao